I recently tried to install FreeBASIC on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.I am totally new to Linux and FreeBASIC. I am an experienced DOS, QBASIC, MASM programmer.

I read the forum thread on installing on Ubuntu -- I installed all of the recommended packages.I extracted the tarball for FreeBASIC into /home/daniel/FreeBASICIf I open a terminal window from this location and runsudo ./install.sh -iI get "FreeBASIC compiler successfully installed in /usr/local.Sure enough, if Icd /usr/local/bin ls -l fbcI get-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1186680 Apr 23 17:00 fbc

Nevertheless, fbc at any command-prompt gives me bash: /usr/local/bin/fbc: No such file or directory

The file is obviously there and marked executable according to ls.Why will it not run?

Furthermore, if I insteadcd /home/daniel/FreeBASIC/bin ls -l fbcI getbash: /usr/local/bin/fbc: No such file or directory

You're probably trying to run a 32-bit FreeBasic binary on a 64-bit Linux installation. This doesn't work out of the box (which might be new for you, if you were working with Windows previously) - you've to install 32-bit loader & libraries explicitly.

But instead of installing the 32-bit stuff on your 64-bit Linux system I'd suggest to rather use the matching FreeBasic package (64-bit on 64-bit Linux, 32-bit on 32-bit Linux, ...).

You were correct -- I downloaded using the green button on the FB website which looked ok to me but was apparently 32-bit.After installing the 64-bit version, I am now able to compile.Additionally, I got Geany installed and working.I'm looking at debuggers now.